Adorno's philosophy of the nonidentical: thinking as resistance

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Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. The Fate of the Nonidentical: Auschwitz and the Dialectic of Enlightenment -- "That of Which One Cannot Speak": A Brief Introduction to the Nonidentical -- Enlightened Earth's Triumphant Calamity -- The Dialectic of Enlightenment -- Damaged Life: The Withering of Experience -- "Coldness descends on all they do ..." -- The Fungibility of Modern Man -- The Limits of Enlightenment: On Antisemitism -- "Utter Enormities" -- An Auschwitz Survivor's Objections to Dialectic of Enlightenment -- 3. The Torturable Body: Adorno's Negative Dialectic -- Identity and Affirmativity: Philosophy's Claim to Meaning -- "Give a Voice to the Pain of the World" -- The Hinzutretende: When Freedom Breaks into Experience -- "Die Gedanken sindfrei" -- The Aporias of Intelligible Freedom -- Kant, Eichmann and Radical Evil -- The Force of Resistance -- Education after Auschwitz -- Adorno's Negative Morality -- Marginalia on Theory and Praxis: Adorno and the Student Movement -- The Paralysis of Flawlessness: In Defense of Uncertainty -- 4. Philosophy of Art, Art of Philosophy: Adorno's Aesthetic Utopia -- A Palace Built from Dog Shit: On Art After Auschwitz -- A Realm Apart -- The Fate of Mimesis -- The Artist as Accoucheur -- Wirf weg, damit Dugewinnst: The Utopian Promise of Aesthetic Experience -- "To Reclaim Childhood" -- Excursus on Another Refuge of Mimesis -- Aesthetic Vertigo -- The Normativity of Natural Beauty -- "I Am a Rhino": The Aura of the Speechless Gaze -- Not Playing Along: Art as Resistance -- Elective Affinities -- Content as Form -- "Homey Murmur" -- Excursus on Heidegger's Deceit of Form -- The Meaning of Despair -- 5. Epilogue -- Where the Light Gets In.